The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26

Charles X. Field of Newfane and the late
Hon Thomas Bartlett of Lyndon, in the
Vermont senate in 1854 or 1855, is retold by
Judge Frisbie of PoultDey in the Rutland
Herald " In the early part of the session OF
one of those years, Mr.. Bartlett introduced
bill for the incorporation of the bank of Lyn-
don, and Mr.. Field one for the incorporation
of the Wantastiquette bank at Newfane; Mr..
Bartlett represented Lyndon and Mr.. Field
Newfane Both bills was referred to the
committee on banks and in due time re-
ported to the house. MIR. Fields bill was
first reported, and adversely, and the house
disposed of it summarily-just how | don't
remember, but in way to end it for the
session. In a day or two after the com
mittee reported Mr.. Bartlett's bill favorably.
Smarting under the defeat of his own bill,
as he probably was, when the question came
nm Shall the bill he read the third time
MIR Field took the floor in opposition, and
opened his speech with the idea, as near as
! can recollect, that measures were run
through the house on the sly We did
not know, nor did we believe the house did,
whether a bank was needed at Lyndon.
We had been on intimate relations with the
gentleman from Lyndon from the commence
ment of the session and not a word had he
said to him (FieldD about his bank at Lyndon.
He closed with one of those harangues, so
common in those days of bank monopoly
and insisted that no more banks should be
chartered in the state than the absolute
needs of the people required. As Mr.. Field
took his seat there was n glow upon the
faces of the members of the house, which
evidently came from the expectation that
something rich aud entertaining would
come from Mr.. Bartlett. Mr.. Bartlett took
the floor at once and replied in substance as
follows { 1t is true he said, that | have
not uttered word to the gentleman from
Newfane about the bank of Lyndon since
the session commenced, and as | recollect
not word to any member of this house, eX-
cept as introduced the bill, and met the
committee to whom 1t was referred at the
time of their meeting called to consider the
bill. Introduction, reference, examination
and report, had supposed, was the only
ordeal allowable in honest legislation to
bring matters to final action. ! did not re-
gard it as my duty to horse-shed the gentle
man from Newfane to get him posted; L
supposed he would get his information as
others get ii, in the due course of legislation
in this house. That is one reason why |
said nothing to the member from Newfane
about my bill and / have another reason
which / will indicate by a story: A good
lady had the misfortune to lose her husband,
and was endeavoring to live with her only
son, John, in rather Strengthened circum-
stances. She kept COW and pig and a
little poultry, and with the poultry few
geese She discovered one day that one of
the geese was inclined TO set. While busy
about her household matters, she told John
to go out and set the goose; that he would
find some eggs in a pan in the buttery.
John performed the duty, and in the course
of the day the good woman had occasion
to go into the buttery and found her pan of
eggs, thirty in number, all gone. She called
TO her son: John, what have you done
with all of those eggs?' Set them under
the goose John replied. Why said the
mother, she can't half cover them there
were thirty L know it, said John; but
l wanted to see the crtter spread herself "